Water-cooler.



Patented June 16, 1914.

Winesses:

PLANOGRAPM Cq.,WASmNnTON n c WILLIAM J. BOI-IAN, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

WATER-COOLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 27, 1912. Serial No. 711,856.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. BoHAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Paul, county of Ramsey, and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Ooolers, of which the following is a specification, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The invention relates to coolers for drinking water, particularly of the-type used in railway cars.

The object of the invention is to provide improved means for covering the water compartment of the cooler.

The invention consists broadly in a cooler having an ice tank adapted to enter within the water tank, a separate chamber therein being provided, however, in order that the ice tank may not be buoyed up by the water, the ice tank being provided with a lateral flange which forms the cover for the water compartment. 7

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention,-Figure 1 is a detail front elevation of the cooler, and Fig. 2 is a vertical central section thereof.

The shell or body of the cooler 10 has double thick walls, as shown; is provided with a bottom 11 set a short distance above the lower end of the body and through which drain pipes 12, from the ice compartment, and 13, from the water compartment lead, the latter pipe being provided with the usual valve, represented at 14. A central chamber is formed within the body by means of a wall or partition 15 rising from the floor or bottom 11 and terminating near the top of the body. This central compartment may be of any desired shape in cross section. A tank for containing ice, designated 16, fits within the central compartment and is provided with a flange 17 having a downstanding shoulder 18, and making a slip joint fit with and serving as a cover for the body. The ice tank is provided with a cover 19, and preferably with a number of ventilating apertures 20. A filling aperture for the water compartment which surrounds the central chamber within which the ice tank is housed, is provided through the cover 17 as shown at 21, this aperture being provided with a slip cover or cap 22. A drain pipe 23 preferably leads from the cover 17 downwardly through the wall 10 of the body to the drain pipe 12, for carrying off any overflow or splash that may occur in filling the water compartment.

It is the practice to resupply the coolers, in railway cars, with ice at divisional stations. The water resulting from the melting of the ice is retained in the ice compartment, and consequently, when a piece of ice is dropped into the tank there is liable to be an overflow of this water. The filling aperture for the water compartment of the tank being below the top of the ice tank, it is essential that proper draining facilities be provided for carrying off any overflow from the latter tank, to prevent it from finding its way into the water compartment. I accordingly provide the flange or cover 17 with an upstanding marginal flange 28, which prevents the overflow from running down over the sides of the cooler and guides it to the receiving end of the drain pipe 23.

The cooler will usually be attached to a wall, and for this purpose is shown as being provided with a lug 21 for engaging a wall bracket or hook.

A faucet 25, of any ordinary type, is provided for drawing the water from the water compartment.

The tank 16 is provided with a nipple 26 which fits within the upper end of the drain pipe 12.

It will be seen that by the construction described a cooler is provided which not only has separate ice and water compartments, but the ice compartment or tank, through its lateral flange, constitutes a cover for the water compartment, and the weight of the ice is utilized in securely holding the cover in place without requiring a tight fitting slip joint therefor. The ice tank may, therefore, be readily removed for the purpose of filling, and may be easily replaced, and when in place will insure a tight closure of the water chamber, notwithstanding any jars to which the cooler may be subjected incident to railway travel.

I claim as my invention- In a water cooler the combination with a body divided into two compartments by a Patented June 16, 1914.

vertical partition, a tank located in one of the compartments of the body and having a a drain pipe leading from Within the upflange for covering the body and silpporting standing flange.

WILLIAM J. BOHAN. the tank, such flange being aperturedover Witnesses: 5 the other compartment of the body, and E. M. BOESEL,

having an upstanding marginal flange, and R. A. HURM.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five gents gaqh, by addressin g the Commissioner of Patents, we l in pa P- 

